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Trapped in their New York
brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of
break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her young daughter
Sarah, play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham
(Forest Whitaker), Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) and Junior (Jared Leto) - during a
brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the
intruders really want is inside it.
The panic room.
In medieval times it was called the castle keep. The 20th century gave way to
bomb shelters, evolving into storm shelters. Now, even the White House has a
Situation Room - a secure, high-tech complex located in the building's basement
that has been in existence since the Kennedy administration.
In the movie Panic Room, it consists of four concrete walls, a buried phone
line not connected to the house's main line, its own ventilation system and a
bank of surveillance monitors that covers nearly every corner of the house -
all protected from the world as we know it by an impenetrable door made of
thick steel.
Two time Oscar winner Jodie Foster gives the nerve jangling performance of her
career in David Fincher's masterpiece of modern terror. Fincher is renowned for
tackling hard hitting subjects and Panic Room is no exception with him delving
deep into the psychosis of current feelings of powerlessness and fear.
Following on from his recent successes, Panic Room is testament to the fact
that Fincher is one of the outstanding auteurs of modern film-making.
2002 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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